After another day of unrest on the streets of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday morning tapped two City Hall insiders to lead a review of the New York Police Department’s conduct durin…
New York City had several hot spots on Saturday night in Manhattan, Queens and Brookly. Several police vehicles were vandalized and some were set on fire. But to date the city has largely avoided the looting that has rocked Minneapolis, Los Angeles and other urban centers during the past few nights since Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on May 25.
Floyd, an unarmed black man, died after being held down on the street with a knee pressed against his neck for more than eight minutes. The officer, Derek Chauvin, has since been charged with manslaughter and fired from the force. De Blasio said Sunday he had no plan to implement a curfew for New York City, as Los Angeles and other cities have as incidents of violence increased. “This is a place with a strong traditional of peaceful protest and a strong tradition of the NYPD being able to manage peaceful protest,” he said. De Blasio emphasized that city officials believes some of the violence was instigated deliberately by organized protest movements though he did not cite any specific groups. He said he’d been on the phone with other big city mayors to discuss the issue. “It’s so obvious what’s happening here,” de Blasio said. He cited growing evidence of a “violent organized effort” by people who “in many times were not from the neighborhoods it was occurring in or not even from the same city.” During de Blasio’s news conference Dermot Shea, New York City Police Commissioner, made a point of expressing his opinion that he has heard “universal condemnation” of the actions of the Minneapolis officers in the Floyd case from law enforcement officials that he’s conversed with in recent days. Law enforcement pros are “just disgusted by it,” Shea said. “There is universal condemnation to what we saw in that video.”
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